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Monday, 28th of April 2008
Taken on my new EOS400D using the stock 18-55mm lens reversed and held on by hand.

Click here for the 1280px wide version. Even that's reduced from the 3000+px original. In other news, I can't wait for the moon to come out again. Needs me a shot of the moon with the new camera. Oh boy.
"McGuyver Macro" posted at 28/04/2008 12:49:29 PM by jared.
Before I forget, if you're looking for a dedicated server, mine is hosted on 1and1. If you go through that link, you help pay for this site. No, they're not as good as Rackspace, but they're a quarter of the price.
"Cheap Server" posted at 28/04/2008 09:48:18 AM by jared.
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Friday, 25th of April 2008
It's got Lego, an iPhone and it's an Unpacking. Way to geek t'internets. How not to geek t'internets is to grumble in these pants.
"Three perfect worlds" posted at 25/04/2008 09:45:06 AM by Jared. Recommended by Chris lock
Here's where you can find me on Saturday afternoon: Triptych 2008. See you at the Tramway.
"Triptych 2008" posted at 25/04/2008 09:34:20 AM by jared.
Thursday, 24th of April 2008
Download the Photographer's rights PDF and make sure you've got them on you when you're taking public photos.
"Photographer's rights PDF" posted at 24/04/2008 02:19:12 PM by jared.
Tuesday, 22nd of April 2008
I just got me one of these. I can't wait for it to arrive.
"New camera!" posted at 22/04/2008 10:41:59 PM by jared.
This is my work history. pg is an alias for ps wwaux | grep -v grep | grep and nu-up.sh is a remove svn update script on two servers hosting a site belonging to a client whose initials are N and U.
jearle@sausages$ history | awk '{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a)print a[i] " " i}' | sort -rn | head -10
240 ssh
43 host
20 curl
18 svn
18 sudo
15 scp
12 nu-up.sh
12 cat
11 pg
I saw it on Cimota.
"the command line history meme" posted at 22/04/2008 01:53:17 PM by jared.
Friday, 18th of April 2008
The Antiquorum auction of an amazing amount of vintage Rolex watches set 9 new price records. Not surprisingly, the double-reds and the likes set the highest prices. It was all about decent sports watches with no bling in sight, just the way it should be.
"Rolex auction sets records" posted at 18/04/2008 09:02:55 PM by Jared. Recommended by Freddy
Using a Quidco offer, you can get an iPhone for £69. Yes, you need to sign up for an O2 tariff, but ... come on, it's a £69 iPhone.
"iPhone for £69" posted at 18/04/2008 04:30:30 PM by jared. Recommended by Victotoro
Thursday, 17th of April 2008
Possibly the finest pop/punk song ever recorded.

"Remember when music sounded like this?" posted at 17/04/2008 02:27:01 PM by jared.
Resize the window on this page for a cool parallax effect. It may not work on IE6, but the web industry is past caring about IE6.
"Parallax CSS goodness" posted at 17/04/2008 10:11:30 AM by jared. Recommended by William Duffy
Wednesday, 16th of April 2008
While I remember, I'm on Twitter.
"Twitter" posted at 16/04/2008 10:24:28 PM by jared.
I added a skyscraper advert to the domain I use for my mailing lists, the wonderfully-named tit-wank.com, and the first advert it served was this one:


Sorry for smirking.
"Oh, the irony" posted at 16/04/2008 08:10:59 PM by Jared.
Looks like Monster Cables picked on the wrong small company. There's something deeply scary about intimidating a company over patents and suddenly finding their CEO was yearning for some of the bare-knuckle scrapping he'd dealt with for the past 20-odd years as a lawyer in litigation practice. Oops.
"Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it."
"wrong fight to start" posted at 16/04/2008 12:46:33 PM by Jared. Recommended by Daring Fireball
I know it's possible to make money off Adwords (most people know that, I guess), but apparently it's possible to make HUGE amounts of cash, if you know what you're doing. This guy claims to be pulling in 16,000 USD a month from it. If it's true, I think we might all be in the wrong line of work!
"Adwords Profit 2" posted at 16/04/2008 05:16:29 AM by scott.
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